Three “views”
Finding the right elsewhere meant drawing three of them. Each option is a complete world, shown twice, once as the view through the glass, once as a plan of the same small footprint. Setting them side by side was a way to narrow Magda's own wish: to see which atmosphere she wanted to live beside.
An English yard: a central floor of gravel to sit on, loose flower beds, the soft cottage register of perennials around a single tree the most open and familiar of the three.
A rock garden, drawing openly on the Japanese and Asian art of the constructed miniature landscape: stones and spare planting composing a natural rocky scene in a few square metres, the boulders doubling as seats.
A subtropical jungle: ferns and vines closing in around large boulders, the most immersive of the three, giving up openness for the feeling of being taken over by green.